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\chapter{Introduction}
Artificial intelligence techniques have recently started enjoying widespread industry awareness and adoption; the use of AI is increasingly prevalent in all sectors \cite{wirtz2019artificial,bosch2021engineering}. The reasons behind this are manifold \cite{jordan2015machine}, to name a few: recent breakthroughs in deep learning (DL), increased public awareness, abundance of available data, access to powerful low-cost commodity hardware, education, but most interestingly, the rise of high-level libraries making ready-to-use state-of-the-art (SOTA) models easily available. The latter practically abolishes the barrier of entry for applying AI --- and with that --- can help use cases in various areas.
Artificial intelligence techniques have recently started enjoying widespread industry awareness and adoption; the use of AI is increasingly prevalent in all sectors \cite{wirtz2019artificial,bosch2021engineering}. The reasons behind this are manifold \cite{jordan2015machine}, to name a few: recent breakthroughs in deep learning (DL), increased public awareness, abundance of available data, access to powerful low-cost commodity hardware, education, but most interestingly, the rise of high-level libraries making ready-to-use state-of-the-art (SOTA) models easily available. The latter practically abolishes the barrier of entry for applying AI --- and with that --- can help use-cases in various areas.
However, the successful integration of AI components into production-ready applications demands strong engineering methods in order to achieve robust deployments \cite{serban2020adoption}. That is why it is as important as ever to also focus on the quality and robustness of deployed models and software. For instance, the lack of a proper overview of data transformation steps may lead to suboptimal performance and to introducing unintended biases which might contribute to the ever-increasing negative externality of misused AI \cite{o2016weapons}.
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\item How suitable is the design of \textit{GreatAI} for helping to apply best practices in other contexts?
\end{rqlist}
In this case, complexity refers to the difficulty faced by professionals (Data Scientists and Software Engineers alike) when integrating third-party libraries with their solutions. This could also be described as the barrier of entry or steepness of the learning curve. If the aforementioned hypothesis is correct, the adoption of best practices can be efficiently increased by decreasing this complexity. AI deployment best practices entail the technical steps ought to be taken in order to achieve robust, end-to-end, automated, and trustworthy deployments. These are detailed in Section \ref{section:requirements}.
In this case, complexity refers to the difficulty faced by professionals (Data Scientists and Software Engineers alike) when integrating third-party libraries with their solutions. This could be also described as the barrier of entry or steepness of the learning curve. If the aforementioned hypothesis is correct, the adoption of best practices can be efficiently increased by decreasing this complexity. AI deployment best practices entail the technical steps ought to be taken in order to achieve robust, end-to-end, automated, and trustworthy deployments. These are detailed in Section \ref{section:requirements}.
The existence question regarding the problem itself (\textbf{RQ1}) is answered by reviewing the literature of more than 30 published case studies in Chapter \ref{chapter:background}. \textbf{RQ2} and \textbf{RQ3} are closely connected, the design and evaluation phases utilised to answer them follow an iterative process. They are examined in Chapters \ref{chapter:design} and \ref{chapter:case} respectively. The final evaluation step is to ascertain the capability of the framework's design to generalise beyond a single subdomain and problem context. This question, \textbf{RQ4}, is investigated through interviews with industry professionals in Chapter \ref{section:interviews}.